• A systematic review examining nutrition support interventions in patients with incurable cancer 

  Blackwood, Honor A.; Hall, Charlie C.; Balstad, Trude R.; Solheim, Tora S.; Fallon, Marie T.; Haraldsdottir, Erna; Laird, Barry J. (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2019-07-29)

  Purpose: Recent guidelines by the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) have advocated increased attention to nutritional support in all patients with cancer: however, little is known about the ...

• Stories from people living with frailty 

  Lloyd, Anna; Haraldsdottir, Erna; Kendall, Marilyn; Murray, Scott A.; McCormack, Brendan (Cambridge University Press, 2019-08-09)

  We describe the findings of a qualitative longitudinal interview study of a group of initially community dwelling frail older people, their informal and formal carers. We used a narrative approach to explore the role that ...

• So, what's in a title? The paradox of nursing professors! 

  Thompson, David R.; McCormack, Brendan; Watson, Roger (Wiley, 2019-03-07)

  We have witnessed a recent proliferation in the UK, Australia and Hong Kong especially of honorary professorships in nursing and the widespread use (and misuse) of honorary and visiting titles. Indeed, in the UK at least, ...

• When is an editorial not an editorial: When it is empirical research! 

  Clifton, Andrew; Banks, David (Wiley, 2019-07-21)

  The purpose of this editorial is to provide a rejoinder to an empirical research article: “Attitudes to Brexit: A survey of nursing and midwifery” that was published as an editorial online on 13 May 2018, in JAN, co‐authored ...

• Evidence-based intervention to reduce avoidable hospital admissions in care home residents (the Better Health in Residents in Care Homes (BHiRCH) study): Protocol for a pilot cluster randomised trial 

  Sampson, Elizabeth L.; Feast, Alexandra; Blighe, Alan; Froggatt, Katherine; Hunter, Rachael; Marston, Louise; McCormack, Brendan; Nurock, Shirley; Panca, Monica; Powell, Catherine; Rait, Greta; Robinson, Louise; Woodward-Carlton, Barbara; Young, John; Downs, Murna (BMJ, 2019-05-27)

  Introduction Acute hospital admission is distressing for care home residents. Ambulatory care sensitive conditions, such as respiratory and urinary tract infections, are conditions that can cause unplanned hospital admission ...

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